Perchance if one would live to see The bard forgotten as time passed thee If Hamlet’s question was ne’er to be And forgotten Othello’s tragedy Bubble, bubble, and trouble that day When lost are king John, Henry two and threeWould Julius still say ‘et tu brute’Or Cleopatra hold dying AnthonyYet somehow all the world is still a stage A midsummer night dream when day is done May the poet’s words endure each new age Perhaps it is much ado about none And maybe it’s silly even to fretForgetting Romeo and Juliet

This was for the day 10 prompt of the Intro to Poetry where the prompt is future and the challenge is to write a Sonnet. Since Shakespeare wrote many sonnets I challenged myself to write about the future of the bard using his style of iambic pentameter and his typical ababcdcd efefgg rhyme scheme. Was a fun try to use some of the bard’s work to inspire the words of the poetry.